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Feminism. Intersectionality. Pop Culture.

[nicolauda]

Rhianna Pratchett confirming her father wouldn't be a """gender critical""" activist (whatever the hell those GCs stand for) if he were still alive

[colouritlater]

The GCs are Terfs. A specific type of transphobe. Quite a few British celebrity got recruited to their ranks and they have the money and clout to do a lot of damage unfortunately.

Terry passed away before Rowling started her downward spiral and played a significant role in creating the current toxic atmosphere around Trans rights in England . It is good to see that his daughter ,who is also a writer, stands up for human rights.

[noirandchocolate]

That’s despicable trying to “recruit” someone who’s DEAD. Not to mention there’s NOTHING in Pratchett’s books—including the ones of essays, articles, and speeches—to suggest he join in if he was alive.

And obviously his own kid would know his private opinions so hopefully the assholes will see her tweet and back the fuck off.

[datsderbunnyblog]

(GC stands for “gender critical”, when you see that it usually means that you’re talking to/about terfs who are trying to rebrand their image).

For those of you who are wondering who else the original tweet is referring to, they are talking about Margaret Atwood, a very prominent feminist author (probably best known for The Handmaid’s Tale). Because she is a feminist the terfs assumed that she’d naturally side with them, and it came as a massive shock (for some reason) when she very publicly opposed and humiliated all of  terfdom.

But yeah I don’t know how terfs can possibly get through Discworld books without any kind of self-awareness but apparently they do. I’ve also seen them talking about how the Wives in the Handmaid’s Tale are all trans women (solely based on the fact that they are infertile). If you know anything about the plot or even the basic premise you’ll know how ludicrous that suggestion is.

Terf rhetoric basically revolves around throwing shit at the wall and then crawling around in anything that sticks, but the underlying transphobia is always present.

[datsderbunnyblog]

Rhianna Pratchett is the best.

[officiallordvetinari]

“Terry Pratchett” is now a trending topic on twitter and everyone is just slamming the people who claim he would be transphobic. It’s been really nice to see

Also there’s this

[somethingmissingthiswaycomes]

And this. Bless @neil-gaiman

[coolcurrybooks-deactivated20230]

I’d already seen most of this on Twitter, but the Tom Hatfield tweet was new to me and got some laughs.

Also, this is the one that made me get all teary:

[7kqe3j9fzdwm-deactivated2025110]

they couldn't have picked a worse choice for someone to claim to be a terf. like. terry fucking pratchett?

[typhlonectes]

[gehe-lihiyot-androgynos-varda-d]

To expand on the crumbling of the patriarchal edifice of the family.

If society agrees that children can know themselves, and have a right to self determination…. Everything else that Conservatives argue they have a right to exert over children crumbles. As just two examples….

ALL corporal punishment rightfully becomes recognised for the assault it is.

Failure to appropriately consider the wishes of children in medical care and provide information in an age appropriate way is recognised as child abuse and malpractice.

Children are entire people, they deserve all of the rights, privileges and protections afforded to adults.

[prideprejudce]

listen i will never support anyone getting booed or yelled at on stage when they go up to accept an award because at the end of the day it’s the execs of the grammy’s who are the ones at fault for creating a rigged system HOWEVER the ‘people like me don’t usually win these’ part of the acceptance speech when said white male artist has been given nothing short of exponential praise and worldwide success for the last DECADE of his career is the probably the most unhinged thing that could have ever come out of his mouth and goes to show just how absolutely delusional and tone deaf the 1% are

[prideprejudce]

this isn’t to say that the other 1% candidates like adele, beyonce, and taylor swift aren’t tone deaf in their own unique millionaire way but it’s a special kind of insult when a publicly non-queer white male celebrity that uses queer fashions and styles like a costume that they can take on and off (like how the kardashians use black culture) for their own benefit and to reap all the rewards while other minority groups don’t and then have the audacity to say that they are the actual underdogs of the industry is just really….something else

[prideprejudce]

to further prove my point, watch how the general public treats harry styles, a non-queer man who dresses eccentrically and exclusively dates women publicly and gets praised for it, in comparison to sam smith, an openly gay genderqueer who has recently begun to dress less gender conforming than before and has seen an exponential rise of both fatphobic and homophobic comments on their videos because of it. or other artists like lil nas x who received death threats due to the rampant homophobia in the rap industry. so harry thinking of himself as any type of underdog when he is a publicity non-queer white male millionaire artist who wears nail polish sometimes is so absolutely absurd that it’s not even funny

[mysweetoddbird]

had to go find that billy porter interview bc he was so right abt this

[yardsards]

i hate how corporations have twisted the phrase “self care” to mean consumerism

no other form of care centers around consumerism

i mean, imagine you’re caring for your young daughter. she comes home from school sad and exhausted.

if your first instict is “i should buy her something to cheer her up”, you’d generally be considered a bad caregiver. most people know that spoiling your kid instead of actually caring for them is bad

of course, you CAN give her a new toy or a bubble bath or some ice cream IN ADDITION TO solutions like support, affection, and rest. but pretty much everyone with a working brain knows those first things are just optional add-ons to REAL care.

but somehow corporations have deluded us into thinking that the rules of caring for *ourselves* are different; that if we spoil ourselves enough, we’ll feel better. they tell us that interpersonal bonds and rest and gentle self-talk aren’t important because they don’t WANT us to feel truly comforted. they want us to keep filling our wounds with gilded toys infinitely.

[queeranarchism]

Actual self care - things that unlike buying stuff have been measured to have a positive impact on mental health (and I am saying this as a tool to cope with the fact that most of us are not okay a lot of the time, not a tool to ‘be more productive or some shit’. You don’t have a ‘duty’ to practice self care and you’re not ‘failing’ anyone if you don’t.) - is stuff like:

Sleep. Naps. Rest.

Having access to decent food, warmth, safety and medical care (duh)

Spending time with friends.

Spending time by yourself.

Spending time in nature/with pets/ caring for plants.

Making art, being creative.

Building or fixing things or doing things that are cognitively interesting like puzzles. Your brain likes being reminded that it can do stuff.

Reflecting on things that hold meaning in your life. That can be religion, or your activism, or the people you love, or your bond with nature. There’s no wrong answers here if it holds meaning for you.

Rhythm and ritual. A lot of our brains like having a recognizable structure in our lives and will vibe better with it. (This is also hard for some so don’t feel bad if this one is not for you.)

That’s it. Except for the basics of food/warmth/medical care, none of those things cost money. Pretty much all of them require time and it is very obvious that capitalism is stealing most of our time and is then trying to sell us quick self-care-fixes in return.

[knitmeapony]

Home.

When I was sixteen years old, I was a very lost little girl. 

I am tremendously lucky; my family is open and kind, my parents are loving, my church was liberal and warm, my school was progressive and thoughtful.

But I still remember getting teased mercilessly about how much of a ‘boy’ I was, with my short haircut and my t-shirt and shorts at the pool.  I still remember getting mocked for being fat, for being not enough of a girl, for not developing fast enough, for developing too fast.  I still can’t question my identity as a woman too much without cracking into a nasty mess of trauma.  I was nine, and I wanted to be anything but what I was.

I still recall the pastor at our church crying because of the gay brother she lost to AIDS.  I remember people outside of our little circle mocking us for working on his quilt square.  I remember sobbing myself, wondering what I would do if I got infected, wondering if the way I was would kill me before I graduated.  I was fourteen, and I knew that I was going to die.  Young, probably.  Certainly alone.

I can replay in my head when, at summer camp, were were tasked with writing monologues including one from the perspective of ourselves, fifty years in the future.  I wrote a comedy about robot limbs and virtual pets.  My friend wrote about how she would be dead, because something would have killed her.  The world would have killed her. AIDS or violence or the government would have killed her. I was sixteen, and I knew none of us would see the other side of twenty.  Some of us had pills to make sure it was so.

And then I remember this day, this miracle, magical day, when a girl from my youth group, three years older than me, beautiful and queer and proud, just came to my house.  I think she knew, though I never talked about it, I think she could see in me what I was and where I was going. 

We never hung out, but she picked me up and she told my Mom we were just going to hang out, and she drove me to a part of town I’d never been before.  It was a coffee shop, and it had a bookstore, and it had rainbows painted into the fence, and I knew what that meant.  And I was terrified.  But N, she was so cool.  She was so cool and so amazing and so confident and so self-assured.  So I went with her.

She ordered a french press and I had a tea, and we just talked.  About life, and philosophy, and all the beautiful, weird things teenage girls talked about.  And all around me, there were these people I’d never seen before.  There were boys holding hands.  There were photos of women kissing on the walls.  There were shelves of queer studies texts.  There were Polaroids of quilt squares stuck all around the register.

And the longer I was there, the better I felt.  And when we left, when the shop closed, I was so regretful to leave, so grateful to be there – I put every dime of my money in the tip jar.

And when I got back to my bedroom, I cried.

Because that place – it was home.  Home. Home.  It was safe.  For all my objectively wonderful, fantastic life, I had never, not once in my life, felt like that.  I could say anything.  I could do anything.  I could be anything.  

And there were people there twice my age.  Three times!  There were old people drinking coffee, holding hands, buying books, obviously not alone and they were like me.

My mom asked why I was crying, and all I could tell her was that I was going to be okay.  And that was it, that was the whole story.  I was crying because I was going to be okay.  Because there were people who lived beyond twenty.  Because no matter what else happened, there was a home.  I went back, over and over.  When school started, I gave my carefully hoarded pills to someone else, but I also asked them if they wanted to come to the coffee shop with me.

That coffee shop is long gone, and N has moved on and we haven’t talked in decades, but that first trip was absolutely essential to my survival, because it taught me there were places out there that’d feel like home.  Other queer spaces, ones that were quite explicitly so.  Clubs.  Parties.  College groups.  I never really came out, I just started being this person.  The world around me was accepting enough that I could.  And always, no matter what, if the world got too hard, I could find one of those places.  I wouldn’t get hell.  I would be home.

Where you go in, and you see someone like you.  You see a hundred people like you but not like you, old people, successful people, beautiful people, ordinary people.  You feel safe.  You go home.  Because it doesn’t matter what the place is, what people do there, it’s the people, it’s the strangeness, it’s the things you can not see in your mainstream life that make them special.

These places are so important.  And when one of them is violated, even when I don’t know anyone personally affected, I feel like my own home was broken into.  I feel terrified.

My family has been relentlessly, endlessly, constantly under siege since long before I was born.  It will still be at war long after I die.  But there are places like that coffee shop, like Pulse, where I can go to plan and play, to mourn and dance, to be.  

I don’t have some big conclusion for this.  I don’t have one of my usual messages of hope.  I just wanted to say that places like this are important, that we need more of them.  Places like this changed me, and for the better.  Places like this are where my family lives.  And while I will be on my guard, I refuse to be afraid to go there.  I will go home, any time, any city, and there is nothing anyone can do to change that.  The reward is worth the risk.  

If you feel the same – if you can, if you feel safe – please, go to one of these places this week.  Go to a club, go to a coffee shop, go to a mixer or an event, hell, go to a thrift store if it’s an explicitly queer one.  There are a lot of people that are going to be afraid, this week.  Go, please, if you are brave, and make those places weird and wonderful and diverse and home.  

[knitmeapony]

I wrote this in 2016, and I meant every word, and I mean it all over again now. And I’ll mean it every time someone invades our spaces, invades our lives, and tries to make us afraid to be ourselves.

[fuckyesfeminist]

Sad but true :/

Link to tweets: https://twitter.com/britneyqueers_/status/1505287814128324611?s=21

[hazardous-waste-containment]

White nationalists are flocking to the US anti-abortion movement | Moira Donegan

The white supremacist and anti-choice movements have always been closely linked. But more and more, they are becoming difficult to tell apar

But the link between the anti-choice movement and white supremacy is much older and more fundamental than this recent, superficial social justice branding effort. Before an influx of southern and eastern European immigrants to the United States in the latter half of the 19th century, abortion and contraception had only been partially and sporadically criminalized. This changed in the early 20th century, when an additional surge of migrants from Asia and Latin America calcified white American racial anxieties and led to white elites decrying the falling white birth rate as “race suicide”.

Abortion bans were quickly introduced nationwide. As the historian Leslie Raegan put it, “White male patriotism demanded that maternity be enforced among white Protestant women.” The emerging popular eugenics movement supported this campaign of forced birth for “fit” mothers, while at the same time implementing a widespread campaign of involuntary sterilization among the poor, particularly Black women and incarcerated women. Meanwhile, white women who sought out voluntary sterilization were discouraged or outright denied the procedure, a practice that is still mainstream in the medical field today.

[egberts]

Y'ALL

Billionaire Mark Cuban has launched a war against Big Pharma. Recently, he started an online pharmacy where over 100 lifesaving medications are offered at low costs. He charges a standard 15% markup in an industry that typically sees no less than 100% markup. In just one example, a life saving leukemia drug with a typical retail price of $9,657 is offered by him for a total of $47. Insurance is not accepted due to the fact that it would force him to work with manufacturers requiring certain price points.

https://costplusdrugs.com/

[thepl-ace-icallhome]

Additional sources:

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/24/1075344246/mark-cuban-pharmacy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/02/mark-cuban-cost-plus-drug-prices/

[wheresthewater]

[Image ID: A two part tumblr reply by @/flashsunken that reads: “He actually kind of stole the idea from Blueberry Pharmacy, who already does this and will also contact your doctor! Blueberry Pharmacy is an independent pharmacy that does what Mark Cuban proposes but more without charging for doctor communication!

Expansion of this idea is always good though! And someone with money deffo has more money to change the industry than one independent pharmacy. Either way, even if the process is being spearheaded by someone I'm not a fan of, this is what America needs.” END ID]

[fuckyesfeminist]

I’m sorry but if the company doesn’t take insurance, who is it really helping?? Even reduced price medicine costs a great deal. The internet is obsessed with billionaires who have mediocre ideas they take from other people, and declare they are heroes. 🙄

[blackexcellence]

Today in Black Excellence: Shirley Chisholm, the first African American—and the first woman—to seek nomination for President.

“I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of The United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.”

—Shirley Chisholm

Chisholm wanted to be remembered as a “catalyst for change.” What did she do?

Shirley Anita Chisholm was a politician, educator, and writer. There would be no Barack Obama or Kamala Harris without her—she was a trailblazer in every sense of the word.

Citing her “double-handicap” of being a Black woman, Chisholm initially rejected a political career but became increasingly engaged in fighting racial and gender inequality. She eventually joined the Democratic Party in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, winning a seat in the United States Congress in 1968, and becoming the first Black woman to do so.

What did she achieve in politics?

With a seat at the table, “Fighting Shirley” introduced over 50 pieces of legislation on behalf of the poor, protesting racial and gender inequality. She became a fierce critic of the Vietnam War when opposition to the war was considered radical. Her outspoken assault on injustice earned her few friends in the white political establishment.

While campaigning for the 1972 primaries, Chisholm was allowed only one speech in televised debates and was otherwise blocked from participation. Despite this, students, women, and minorities proved loyal supporters: In 12 primaries, she garnered 152 (10%) of delegates’ votes, despite a poorly financed campaign and widespread political hostility.

The 1972 primaries also displayed her remarkable character, when she chose to visit racist and segregationist Governor George Wallace of Alabama in hospital after a failed assassination attempt.

After retiring from Congress in 1983, Chisholm taught at Mount Holyoke College and co-founded the National Political Congress of Black Women.

Original portrait by Tumblr Creatr @banana-peppers

“It was an honor to create a piece celebrating Shirley Chisholm. She was the first Black woman elected to Congress and to seek a major party nomination for presidency. Her trailblazing career is truly inspiring and I wanted to capture her power, her bravery and her magic. Her motto Unbought and Unbossed implores us to forge our own path no matter what obstacles try to stand in our way."

—@banana-peppers

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

[bauliya]

arundhati roy is an Indian leftist activist and author, and this is a criticism of Gandhi and Gandhian politics. this context is important. she’s lived through the failure of gandhi-esque politics.

[artemisia-black]

Bellatrix: mental illness and the feminist lens

In my Walburga post, I mentioned wanting to explore the mental health discourse around Bellatrix Lestrange (nee Black).

1.0 Bellatrix and insanity

Bellatrix is the only prominent female death eater (Alecto Carrow has no spoken dialogue and Narcissa Malfoy is not actually a death eater) yet is the only death eater who is coded as ‘insane’ and ‘mentally-ill’. She is frequently described as ‘mad’, ‘fanatical’ and is often ‘shrieking’.

“ Get it himself?” shrieked Bellatrix on a cackle of mad laughter.” OoTP

“ Do it! You have no idea of the danger we are in!” shrieked Bellatrix. She looked frightening, mad; a thin stream of fire issued from her wand and burned a hole in the carpet. “ DH

While her actions are undeniable evil, I take issue with one of the few female villains being coded as mentally ill.

For most people, their first exposure to society's views on mental illness occurs via the media they consume. And in both children’s books and movies, the vast majority of characters with psychiatric illnesses are portrayed as violent or threatening. Therefore children are taught to conflate mental illness with immorality/villany.

This is further fuelled by news reports where mental illness is often touted as the motivation for criminal acts. Mass shootings are often the focus of this discourse and mental illness is promoted as the sole reason behind people’s acts (a reasoning that discounts the social milieu surrounding the offender).

A study conducted in 2010, found that 60% of Americans thought patients with Schizophrenia were likely to be violent. The study concluded that:

‘ Public attitudes matter. They fuel “the myth that mental illness is lifelong, hopeless, and deserving of revulsion’ (reference 1)

In fact, people with mental illness were more likely to be the victims of crime and according to the report, ‘At Risk yet dismissed’ :

In the qualitative interviews, many participants felt that having a mental health problem was a factor in their victimisation. They gave examples of perpetrators picking up on visible signs of vulnerability and distress, and known perpetrators preying on them when they were unwell and less able to protect themselves.

2.0 Bellatrix through a feminist lens

In the text above, I discussed why conflating mental illness with villainy is problematic. However, I also mentioned that Bellatrix is one of the only female death eaters. So her ‘mental illness’ and character should also be viewed through a feminist lens.

2.1 Mental illness and feminism

Psychiatry as a discipline has been patriarchal for the majority of its history, and has often been used as a tool to subjugate women.

In the Victorian era, women who attempted to break out of biological-based gender roles were often pathologised by doctors and in certain cases, institutionalized.

For example, in 1835 the British doctor James Cowls Prichard invented the diagnosis of ‘moral insanity,’ and the diagnostic criteria included: Women who studied aka demonstrating ‘eccentricity of conduct’.

If you want to read more about this, I highly recommend the book:

‘Mad, bad and sad; a history of women and the mind doctors by Lisa Appignanesi

2.2 Bellatrix’s character through a feminist lens

Within the HP universe Bellatrix doesn’t entirely adhere to gender roles, and although she is married, within the timeline of the books she doesn’t have children (interestingly this mirrors the only other female villains- Umbridge and Rita Skeeter). Additionally Bellatrix is killed by Molly Weasley and according to JKR:

‘ I really enjoyed killing Bellatrix, and I really enjoyed having it be Molly that did it. And of course, you also have two very different kinds of female energy there pitted against each other. You have Molly who will mother the whole world if she can, and you have Bellatrix, whose idea of love is very perverse and twisted, and that was satisfying.’

This idea that Bellatrix performs a type of womanhood that is ‘twisted’ is deeply and inexorably entwined with the ‘mentally-ill’ woman trope within which the character is grounded. Also the idea that the opposite of ‘mothering’ is being ‘perverse and twisted’ is in of itself deeply problematic.

In conclusion, it is my opinion that Bellatrix should have been given more motivation than simply being ‘mad’ and ‘fanatical’. The male death eaters who committed acts as heinous as hers, were allowed more nuance than she was. Even the poorly sketched out motivations of Peter Pettigrew (who killed both Cedric and Bertha in cold blood) wasn’t hinged on his mental health.

Additionally, the coding of a female villain as mentally ill plays into harmful tropes about women’s mental health. And having childless women as villains, reinforces patriarchal beliefs about what it means to be a woman.

References (in order)

Pescosolido BA, Martin JK, Long JS, Medina TR, Phelan JC, Link BG. "A disease like any other"? A decade of change in public reactions to schizophrenia, depression, and alcohol dependence. Am J Psychiatry. 2010 Nov;167(11):1321-30. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.09121743. Epub 2010 Sep 15. PMID: 20843872; PMCID: PMC4429867.

at-risk-yet-dismissed-report.pdf (mind.org.uk)

Steen M. Historical perspectives on women and mental illness and prevention of depression in women, using a feminist framework. Issues Ment Health Nurs. 1991 Oct-Dec;12(4):359-74. doi: 10.3109/01612849109010017. PMID: 1938342.

“Frailty, thy name is woman”: Depictions of Female Madness (vcu.edu)

[fuckyesfeminist]

And this is why JKR isn’t a feminist. She just hates trans people. The way she writes female characters is Not Good for the most part, hung up on sexist tropes. It’s why I can’t take it seriously when anyone refers to her as feminist.

[refinery29]

Watch: Linda Sarsour gets real on being a Muslim feminist

As the executive director of the Arab American Association of New York, Sarsour serves as an unapologetic advocate for her religious and ethnic heritage. And she’s not ignoring how women are represented in Islam, either.

[thechanelmuse]

Virginia Politician Admits to Fathering Child With His Underage Secretary

Politicians never cease to amaze me, and the most recent scandal out of Virginia proves that some of them are out of their bats–t-crazy minds. Former Virginia Del. Joe Morrissey, 57, has finally admitted fathering a child with his former receptionist Myrna Pride, with whom the Democrat had been accused of having a sexual relationship when she was just 17 years old.

In December he served three months of a six-month sentence as part of a plea deal related tocharges of having a sexual relationship with Pride when she was underage. Morrissey entered an Alford plea, which basically isn’t an admittance of guilt but an acknowledgment that there isenough evidence to be found guilty. That evidence included nude photos of Pride that were sent to Morrissey when she was underage, as well as seedy, sexual text messages between Morrissey and an associate, in which Morrissey bragged about having sex with Pride on his office desk.

Ironically, while Morrissey was serving his jail sentence, which involved being jailed at night and on work release during the day, he was actually working. Virginia voters, amid his underage sex scandal, helped Morrissey reclaim his House of Delegates seat. Currently, he is running for the Virginia Senate as an independent.

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This entire story is disgusting, disturbing, and fucked up. That photo is on some “massa,” slave plantation shit…WHERE TF ARE HER PARENTS?…

[kangolcap]

this paedophile clearly has a slave/slave master fetish for black women. he has three children by three different underage black girls. i’m beyond repulsed.

[jobe00failedblog1-deactivated20]

Two .45 slugs, back of the head, shallow grave, extra limestone. Problem solved.

[susiethemoderator]

OH GOD. He plans to marry the now 19 year old. Where is her family?

[fkapetitsirena]

but, bbygrl, why a tura satana appreciation day?

[tw : rape]

she’s a total babe. duh.

she’s japanese, filipino, cheyenne + irish. 

she was simultaneously a straight-a student in school while being viciously bullied for her heritage + size and punished by her parents for getting into fights. i mean, even without the straight a’s, she was strong and endured feeling isolated at home and at school.

she’s a fellow rape survivor — “Walking home from school at the age of nine she was gang raped by five men. According to Satana, her attackers were never prosecuted and it was rumored that the judge had been paid off. She tells how this prompted her to learn the martial arts of aikido and karate and, over the next 15 years, track down each rapist and exact revenge. ’I made a vow to myself that I would someday, somehow get even with all of them’, she said years later. ‘They never knew who I was until I told them.’”

she began living on her own at the age of 13, after her parents married her to a 17-year old and she wasn’t having that bullshit. i can’t even imagine what that was like.

she was an extremely successful burlesque dancer, and even when she got pregnant at 19 she danced through the first eight months of her pregnancy! and yeah, she still made BANK. 

faster pussycat! kill! kill! — a cult classic john waters apparently calls the greatest movie ever made. i still haven’t seen it, but from what i’ve read it portrays the three female leads (tura satana is the LEAD lead) in positions or power that normally men are portrayed in, and that’s allll the way back in the 60’s. she did all her own stunts and fight scenes. the majority of satana’s styling and one-liners, and some additional key concepts of the film, were satana’s own doing.

after being shot by a former lover and staying in a hospital, she decided to study nursing and she did just that. she even briefly worked as the dispatcher for the lapd.

tura satana passed away on 2/4/2011, but she’s still amazing and one of my inspirations as a woc, especially as a mixed-race asian rape survivor struggling to embrace my sexuality. <3 and that’s why i’m giving her her own day! just who she was makes me feel good about me.

all facts taken from tura satana’s wikipedia page

[theuntitledmag]

[Image Description: A animated screencap of Tura Satana in the desert in the film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! saying “I never try anything. I just do it. And I don’t beat clocks, just people! Wanna try me?]

[lovewillcomethru]

Damn, I didn’t know all that. I love Tura and Faster Pussycat is seriously one of the best movies out there!!

[gambiht-deactivated20210814]

I got catcalled while I was walking the other day and I couldn’t think of anything clever to say so I just made the most hideous shrieking noise I possibly could.

I heard the guys in the car go “the fuck?”

[fatherofthebride]

#no this is good let’s do this

[nothing-but-dreams]

Guy: “Ay yo baby, nice tits!” Girl:

[dayoldhakarl-deactivated2021011]

I am so down with this

[micdotcom]

School tells gay student to go back in the closet or leave

Go back in the closet, or find a new school. That was the heartbreaking decision being forced upon Austin Wallis, a 17-year-old vlogger, who posted an emotional video on his YouTube channel after he claims he was told by school administrators that if he wanted to stay enrolled at his private Christian high school, he would have to cease being open about his sexuality and delete his social media accounts.

Watch the incredibly heartbreaking yet inspirational video

[lady-feral]

I need more girly things.

You know, like dresses and lacy things and stockings and makeup and battle axes.

[lady-feral]

Side note:  I made a lacy battle axe once.